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Re: Mom with shotgun fends off daughter's would-be kidnapper.

Seems to me that if someone snatches a parent's child, the kidnapper has done everything but put the parent's gun in his mouth. An enraged parent isn't likely to be thinking much about the kidnapper's rights in such a situation.

Re: Mom with shotgun fends off daughter's would-be kidnapper.

Originally Posted by EagleAye

Seems to me that if someone snatches a parent's child, the kidnapper has done everything but put the parent's gun in his mouth. An enraged parent isn't likely to be thinking much about the kidnapper's rights in such a situation.

Exactly. A kidnapped child is every parent's nightmare.

I had an absolute horror about this when my son was young. The fear of death inherent to the human condition is trivial in comparison... having my child be missing and not knowing if he was alive or dead or being mistreated or abused or tortured would have destroyed me. I'd hate to tell you what I could do to a man who tried to kidnap my child, it would sound medieval.

Would I shoot such a man? Yes. How many times? How many shells are in the shotgun? Anyone who broke into my home and tried to steal my child would never get a second chance at it.

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Re: Mom with shotgun fends off daughter's would-be kidnapper.

Originally Posted by HonestJoe

You seem to have missed (or ignored) my point so I'll put it more straight forwards;

I don't necessarily disagree with the right to bare arms but you need to recognise that the freer gun ownership doesn't just make it easier for people like the mother in this case to get a gun but it also makes it easier for people like the man in the case to get one too.

It's not a simple issue, there are many complications that I think require more consideration than they seem to receive.